ALBANY >> Cavadeas Taylor, the Port Ewen teenager charged with killing a Kingston infant last year, pleaded guilty to manslaughter Tuesday and faces 15 years in state prison, according to the Albany County District Attorney’s Office.

Taylor was indicted for second-degree murder in December for the June 2013 death of 5-week old Seth Knox Jr. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter, a lesser charge, before Judge Roger McDonough in state Supreme Court in Albany, according to a press release from District Attorney P. David Soares.

Taylor, 19, is to be sentenced July 25 and is expected to draw a term of 15 years in state prison and 15 years of post-release supervision.

Albany Times Union court reporter Robert Gavin tweeted that Taylor told the judge on Tuesday that he “lost my cool” after the baby would not stop crying and then hit the infant’s head against a wall.

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The indictment alleged that, between June 11 and 12, at a home on Second Street in Albany, Taylor, who was 18 at the time, “recklessly engaged in conduct which created a grave risk of death that ultimately resulted in the death of Seth Knox Jr.”

Seth died June 17. Albany police, who had been alerted by Albany Medical Center staff about the baby’s severe head injury, arrested Taylor on June 21.

Police at the time described Taylor as a family friend and caretaker for the child.

The child’s mother, Asia Gordon, who lived at the Colonial Gardens in Kingston at the time of Seth’s death, told the Freeman last June that Taylor brought her son to Albany on June 11 to be with the child’s father, Seth Knox Sr. Gordon said she was told the next day that Knox Sr. was bringing the baby back to Kingston because he felt cold.

Gordon, a home health aide, said the child was convulsing and gasping for breath when he arrived, so she took him to HealthAlliance Hospital’s Broadway Campus in Kingston. The baby then was transferred to Albany Medical Center, where his condition worsened, Gordon said at the time.

Seth Knox Sr. has been indicted for endangering the welfare of a child for failing to seek prompt and adequate medical attention for his son, who was having difficulty breathing. His case is still pending.